Leaves of Grass

Edward Norton plays dual roles as twin brothers from Oklahoma in this off-kilter mash-up of comedy and drama that co-stars Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss.

"...Sarandon, Steve Earle, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Maggie Siff, Lee Wilkof and Ty Burrell. Is there anything more enticing to..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Leaves of Grass Spreading

Tyler Durden talks South By bump

"...Well, count Edward Norton (whose new intellectual stoner comedy Leaves of Grass premiered at SXSW this year) among those..."

April 1, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...to you sweetly from my window in the Tower of Song...."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

“Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Giant” at the Blanton Museum of Art

The film is good at showing the fate of the film set of Giant, but it leaves open the question of what’s happened to Marfa

"...and Alexander Birchler, features an imagined 1950s Hollywood studio office juxtaposed with scenes of a decrepit movie set outside..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Wall of Separation

Neighbors of Hyde Park Baptist Church Take a Final Stand Against Its Proposed Parking Garage

"...week: that finally, after 37 demolished homes, 10 years of legal wrangling, and countless Sunday morning demonstrations, the City..."

Feb. 2, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Gang of Guerillas

"...Americans will pass through life without finding an apparition of the Virgin Mary in one of their tortillas. Just..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Books Review

Dreaming of Buffalo

Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward

"...driving through Kansas? That ain't prairie. Those monotonous fields of scraggly knee-high grass in the pastures outside town? That..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Letters at 3AM: Dead and Alive on the Fourth of July

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...the masses, plug undersea gushers, or govern. Meanwhile, avoiding officialdom of any kind, Huck Finn lives. Independent, tolerant, skeptical,..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Fear of Flying

Bombs, Back Pains & Tish Hinojosa

"...Saturday, July 27, 1996, Chicago: I hear the news of the Centennial Olympic Park bomb while waiting at Chicago's..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Music Feature

The Grand Designs of Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato

"...noted in the All Over Creation column "In Praise of Designers", two of Austin's most accomplished theatrical designers are..."

July 17, 2015 Photo Gallery

Dance of the Prodigal Son

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

"...A youth leaves home to seek fulfillment in the wide, wide world,..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Great Are the Myths

Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin

"...Little Feat. Lots and lots of Little Feat. If you're of a certain age and..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Happening

In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.

"...Breslin, Ashlyn Sanchez and Betty Buckley. It is now, officially, way past time some smart cookie over at the..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: The Message

Republicans try to rewrite a history of privileging party over principle

"...Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn."..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Across the Universe

Gearing up for a new national tour of her hit show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Lily Tomlin took a few minutes to talk about connectedness -- her connectedness with The Search, with audiences, and with Austin.

"...registered on the national consciousness as a cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, she has charmed audiences with..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Many Banned Books Have You Read?

Redefine appropriate, suitable, proper, and honest.

"...Austinites will read from banned and challenged books, including Leaves of Grass; The Color Purple; Are You There, God?..."

Sept. 25, 2013 Events Post by Sarah Sharif

Double Entendres

Edward Norton and Tim Blake Nelson bring Leaves of Grass to SXSW

"...packed Alamo Drafthouse South Friday with the U.S. premiere of Leaves of Grass, which Nelson wrote and directed and..."

March 16, 2010 Screens Post by Cindy Widner

Robert De Niro Versus Tony Jaa?

Fantastic Fest release second wave of programming

"...premieres; Now Fantastic Fest had released the second wave of its gore-drenched, mind-bending, high-kicking 2010 line-up...."

Aug. 27, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...No. 1 – is raring to go, and the proof is in the lineup. As of today, the full..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Page Two: Ringing True

The Constitution and the films of Joan Micklin Silver stand above the noise as the alt-weekly series concludes

"...have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM

No recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' shared the poem's spirit or its author's invitation to expand the very definition of 'human being'

"...all that wistful, reverent, carefully even-handed verbiage in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass?..."

July 22, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Quick-Change Artist

Edward Norton does another character about-face in the gritty drama Stone

"...those Edward Norton has in the upcoming Stone and Leaves of Grass, which was released on DVD Oct. 12...."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...always been up with comedy, and a quick skim of the just-released feature lineup shows the fest continuing the..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The World to Come

Frontier romance speaks of a love that cannot speak the name it does not yet have

"...The notion of sexual identity – gay, straight, or otherwise per the..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 1-7

"...TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is there an area of your life where you would like a do-over? A..."

May 1, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Now Voyager Sail Thou Forth

Kate's coast-bound to commemorate the Ike anniversary.

"...and Three: Words from Walt Whitman (via Leaves of Grass and Bette Davis)..."

Sept. 10, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Letters at 3AM

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

"...Six weeks of a daily class, the last these high school seniors..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

McGuffey's Readers helped establish American education as we know it (or knew it).

"...though stained, and its paper and ink had been of such high quality that the print was still clear..."

April 27, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Included here are more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Ventura Enlightened Readers About Whitman!

"...down to the libraries and bookstores to check out Leaves of Grass. And looking all around us and under..."

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